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by ashark 9y ago
I really miss After Dark. A couple are available (legitimately, apparently) through IIRC some Japanese site, though I recall the payment system being sketchy enough that I wasn't willing to give them my CC. Still, they provided Flyin
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by ashark 9y ago
> “I think the fad about learning styles faded long ago, and I would be surprised if many schools continued to subscribe to the approach. That said, the notion of making teaching and learning more varied in classrooms is helpful and like
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by ashark 9y ago
Oh, absolutely, but the reasons aren't important if you're just trying to choose the best school for your kid. It's gonna be the one with the more privileged kids of richer parents, pretty much every time, and the fact of th
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by ashark 9y ago
The really bad schools receive a lot of outside money. Around here they pay substantially better than the good schools. It doesn't help much, because the money's not what's making the difference. [EDIT] Clarification: wha
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by ashark 9y ago
My experience has been that even fairly high-end laptops have much worse cameras than i-devices, and usually only have a front-facing one, making for some really awkward, shaky, low-quality filming and a lot of difficulty framing shots, man
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by ashark 9y ago
Being educated in classrooms where there aren't constant severe disruptions, where there's a much lower chance your kid will fall in with a crowd so bad that they end up in jail, where a higher percentage of their peers all expe
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by ashark 9y ago
> A tablet (iPad or otherwise) much less so; tablets are very much "consumption" devices, which can consume packaged educational content and videos, but don't help with collaboration. If you told me I had to make a video o
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by ashark 9y ago
This kind of thing happens everywhere. Good school districts in the US aren't usually good because they're better funded or because the teachers are really amazing (those things may or may not be true) but because a variety of fac
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by ashark 9y ago
I did as thorough a comparison of translations of Meditations as I could as a non-Greek-speaker a couple years ago, and settled on Maxwell Staniforth's for being highly readable while also holding much closer to the original than mos
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by ashark 9y ago
That may also be true, but so was what I wrote.
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by ashark 9y ago
A look through their issues on Github will reveal quite a few "npm supports this feature, yarn doesn't, plz add" entries. There are even more "this works in npm but not yarn, and I'm not sure why", many of whic
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by ashark 9y ago
Yarn doesn't support all of npm's features. At least not as of a couple months ago when it 1) didn't support one of our needs at all, and 2) broke a couple NPM packages on install. This may or may not be part of why it's
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by ashark 9y ago
> It scares me, to be honest. I wonder where this tendency in people will lead in the very long run, particularly when you consider the ideas suggested by companies like Neuralink. It brings Black Mirror to mind. 15 Million Merits isn&#x
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by ashark 9y ago
I've got Lichtheim's 3-volume Literature of Ancient Egypt . The time between the earliest and latest entries in that collection? Something like 2400-2500 years (IIRC). And (again IIRC) it stops a few hundred years shy of crossi
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by ashark 9y ago
> I did not, but I understand why some would want to read it as such, because it's an indefensible position to claim that one should be forced to join a politically active organization (or any outside organization for that matter) t
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by ashark 9y ago
Why's it unacceptable ?
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by ashark 9y ago
Why's it more ridiculous than other restrictions and requirements for employment? Or, on the political spending issue, than what companies and trade organizations spend on the same (though usually to different ends)? Hell, even governm
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by ashark 9y ago
See my reply below. TL;DR a situation where people can receive different compensation if they're non-union, and can get out of paying union dues if they're non-union, makes it trivial for management to strangle the union. They c
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by ashark 9y ago
It's not practical to opt out of various benefits that come from the union's activities. For instance, your employer's not going to be able to cut your pay/benefits much below that of union workers, or try to give you an
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by ashark 9y ago
> Also, all CSU employees must pay the union dues, even if you are not part of the union, which is insane. This is to avoid the free rider problem. Removing this requirement basically kills a union. Right-to-work laws, for example, are 1
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by ashark 9y ago
I hope that there's been some hidden benefit I'm unaware of that's so large it could from some point of view that's not simply insane or stupid justify fueling a massive immigration crisis in Europe, with all the conse
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by ashark 9y ago
> state sponsored or otherwise pushing an anti-humanitarian cause. What's the anti-humanitarian cause? Throwing enough resources at the fight to keep it going for years instead of weeks/months, but not enough to actually end it
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by ashark 9y ago
I know the spin-offs catch a lot of shit—and the first Black Ops was awful—but Black Ops II, for all its problems, does more interesting stuff in both its single- and multi-player than I've seen in another console FPS since Perfect D
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by ashark 9y ago
That might explain how they got around the horror that is trying have have complex, flexible styling across several major Android versions without every single thing you do being entirely broken on one or another. I'd wondered why the
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by ashark 9y ago
Exactly my first thought on reading the headline. "Oh, really? Then thanks for prioritizing my battery life and general UX over cheaper app development, Apple!"
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by ashark 9y ago
This is why you have to dress up at least once every couple weeks. So it's not suspicious when you are interviewing.
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by ashark 9y ago
Many do, effectively. See: loyalty cards with special pricing or rewards attached. Membership cards for Costco or Sam's, though there are other reasons for those, too. Stacking that stuff and CC rewards can save you several percent o
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by ashark 9y ago
Plasticky? Mostly? Like a fridge that's been unplugged (empty) for a while, but less strong.
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by ashark 9y ago
I did that once but they came out with freezer-smell (predictably, I guess).
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by ashark 9y ago
I'm pretty sure I didn't retire the last of my ps/2, serial, and parallel port equipment until about 2010. Gameport and AT probably went out around '05-'07—until then USB saw very little use and if I'd had to p

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